Crossword for Sun, 15/Jun/2008

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Across
1: and 1-down Adherents defer if mistaken for birds (9,7)

5: Assistants' crackpot ideas (5)

8: Is Asian holy man sinning in Asian capital? (9)

10: Order directions for growing grass? (5)

11: Incredibly stoned, taking Intro to Math final (7)

13: 'Bewitched' girl hit a bat frolicking (7)

14: Half disapprove of old king (3)

15: At hand no competent help (5)

17: Prom couple steals crown from teen dress up (5)

18: The world's broken heart (5)

19: Dress up fakes without a shred of compunction (5)

20: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

22: To grin, I become disorderly (7)

25: Sponges kisses after initiation (7)

26: Prepare for onset of torrential downpour (5)

27: Symbol of hierarchy to church holds no value (5,4)

29: First confession left the listener feeling no doubt (5)

30: Number observed with contest entry (9)
Down
1: Most attractive are quick to adopt rage (7)

2: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

3: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

4: Last brute buckles under counter arguments (9)

5: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

6: Thats sensible; has the eagle perhaps landed? (4-2-5)

7: In a way, suffer from stain all around us (7)

9: Period email feature (3)

12: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

16: Almost as it happens, keeping erratic time to recurrent theme (9)

17: Cops and I abandon frayed trampoline (9)

18: Unpredictable fellow eats vermin (7)

21: Any number follow festival in the Orient (7)

23: Main nerve carries most central portion (5)

24: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

28: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)




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